🇺🇸 Nashville

Chef friends put together a meal with local seasonal ingredients: "90-day aged ribeye steaks from nearby Bear Creek Farms... topped off with oyster mushrooms and bourbon soy, and some nice runny eggs, and garlic. Grits, greasy beans, homemade ricotta with a cold smoked sausage, and roasted acorn squash.

Tony visited singer-songwriter Margo Price's home where her musician friends had a party and prepared food. Her husband and bass player in the band, Jeremy, made biscuits topped with pimento cheese and bacon; braised short rib on crostini with goat cheese.

A burger joint that is also a hangout for Nashville musicians. They had burgers and hot fries (smothered with cheese and hot chicken flavor), which Tony called "country poutine."

Tony went to this cafeteria style restaurant with Jesse Boyce (songwriter/producer),and ordered a combo popular in Nashville called the "meat & three" which includes a meat dish and 3 sides. Tony chose fried chicken with okra, corn, and mashed potatoes. 

Tony tried the hottest version of Nashville Hot Chicken (and paid dearly for it later). He ate with Allison Mosshart of the band The Kills and her brother Matthew, a chef. He said he had a 12-hour "existentially awful experience" after eating the chicken.

Tony went here with Dean Fertita (guitarist and keyboard player for Queens of the Stone Age, musician with the Dead Weather). "Cryotherapy, the latest in muscle recovery treatments," explains Tony. Liquid nitrogen chills down the pod to -300 degrees which causes your body to kickstart anti-inflammatory proteins.

Chef Tandy Wilson made pizza for Tony and Dean Fertita (guitarist and keyboard player for Queens of the Stone Age, musician with the Dead Weather).

Tony went to The Blue Room to watch singer-songwriter Margo Price record directly to acetate at Jack White's studio.

Cocktail bar with a mixologist. Upstairs there is a restaurant called Catbird Seat. Tony had a drink here before he ate a meal at the restaurant.

20-seat restaurant with a menu that changes nightly. They ate risotto with sunflower seeds instead of rice, topped with fermented sunchokes and garnished with sunflower sprouts; linguini with sea urchin and chili flakes, made with Japanese ingredients—wakame bucatini, yuzukoshō to represent the chili flakes, scallops dried and smoked and grated over the top; macaron and cookie.

Dead Weather and The Kills both performed at this house party. Tony and Matthew (Alison's chef brother) cooked a bunch of food including apple walnut salad, fried pork dumplings, pulled pork with red cabbage, brisket, and deviled eggs because "it ain't a party without deviled eggs."

The day after the big party at Alison's house, they went to get bloody marys and mimosas at this bowling alley with brunch food.